THE classic English text, of the pilgrims - young and old, fat and thin,noble and villein, behorsed and on foot, wicked and virtuous - wending their pilgrim way to Canterbury. Still the greatest of... More > reads.
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Contents: The House with the Silver Door -- When Knights were Bold -- Dixie Kitten -- An Old, Old Story-Book -- Letters from Colonial Children -- American Hero Stories -- The Story of the Roman... More > People -- The Story of the Greek People -- The Golden Goose and other Fairy Tales -- The Christ Story -- Old Ballads in Prose. All of the above are illustrated.< Less

Contents: The House with the Silver Door -- When Knights were Bold -- Dixie Kitten -- An Old, Old Story-Book -- Letters from Colonial Children -- American Hero Stories -- The Story of the Roman... More > People -- The Story of the Greek People -- The Golden Goose and other Fairy Tales -- The Christ Story -- Old Ballads in Prose. All of the above are illustrated.< Less

A beautifully laid out—and perfectly accurate to the original—copy of one of the most famous books on how to teach Chaucer to children ever issued. Despite its name, this work is directed... More > at explaining and teaching Chaucer—and is equally presentable to both youngsters and adults.
This book, and its author, Mary Eliza Haweis (who wrote using her married name), are widely credited with reviving Chaucer’s poetry in the modern world.
These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer’s shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English.
In addition, the translations are supplemented by copious footnotes providing many fascinating details and background information, setting the scene, tone, and history of each of these marvelous tales.
This edition has been completely reset and the illustrations have been restored to better than original through modern digital enhancement.< Less

A beautifully laid out—and perfectly accurate to the original—copy of one of the most famous books on how to teach Chaucer to children ever issued. Despite its name, this work is directed... More > at explaining and teaching Chaucer—and is equally presentable to both youngsters and adults.
This book, and its author, Mary Eliza Haweis (who wrote using her married name), are widely credited with reviving Chaucer’s poetry in the modern world.
These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer’s shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English.
In addition, the translations are supplemented by copious footnotes providing many fascinating details and background information, setting the scene, tone, and history of each of these marvelous tales.
This edition has been completely reset and the illustrations have been restored to better than original through modern digital enhancement.< Less

A masterful retelling—in modern English—of a selection of The Canterbury Tales, one of the English language’s most popular and long-lasting literary works. Written at the end of the... More > fourteenth century in Middle English and published as the “Tales of Caunterbury,” Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has been credited with popularizing the literary use of vernacular English, rather than French or Latin. This vernacular was, however, Middle English, and still moderately difficult for the modern English reader.
This version takes the most popular tales from The Canterbury Tales, and retells them in a style and language designed to make them accessible to the modern reader. The tales, converted from their original prose, are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark in London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.< Less

A masterful retelling—in modern English—of a selection of The Canterbury Tales, one of the English language’s most popular and long-lasting literary works. Written at the end of the... More > fourteenth century in Middle English and published as the “Tales of Caunterbury,” Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has been credited with popularizing the literary use of vernacular English, rather than French or Latin. This vernacular was, however, Middle English, and still moderately difficult for the modern English reader.
This version takes the most popular tales from The Canterbury Tales, and retells them in a style and language designed to make them accessible to the modern reader. The tales, converted from their original prose, are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark in London to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.< Less

All the stories summarized in this e-book come from the “The Canterbury Tales” of Geoffrey Chaucer. Included are “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Knight’s... More > Tale,” “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” “The Friar’s Tale,” “The Physician’s Tale,” “The Lawyer’s Tale,” and “The Squire’s Tale.” Three of my seven reviews are based on Chaucer’s original Middle English text, which is presented in Peter Beidler’s edition of “The Canterbury Tales.” For those who do not read Middle English, Peter Beidler presents a modern English translation.
The other four tales that I reviewed were not included in Peter Beidler’s edition. My reviews of these tales are based on modern English translations that I found on the Internet.
To make this work suitable for people of all ages, I omitted “The Miller’s Tale,” “The Reeve’s Tale,” and similar stories.< Less

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